For example, I have 50 Gib PV/PVC and grant to one Pod, I just want to check usage of the storage
The way I am just following is to set up a busybox pod with mounting the same PVC, then exec into the busybox to run df -h
to check the storage.
I just want to know if there is an efficient way to do the same thing.
Unfortunately we don't have this at the moment. What I often do is querying on Prometheus (because I have a Prom cluster there) for the metrics kubelet_volume_stats_used_bytes
for the information.
Or in the harder way, you can write an operator to watch a CRD which wraps the PVC and to display the usage of the PVC.
There are many types of PV-s (e.g. various cloud storage). Each of them might have a different way of getting this information. You could always use kubectl describe pv <pv-name>
or kubectl get pv <pv-name> -o yaml
. This might give you some information about the current state of the PV, but it might lack the information you need.
I assume though that you are using Local PV-s. In this case your solution to run df -h
inside a container is not bad. One other thing you could do is to run this command on the node which hosts the PV directly.